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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'>Johannes Govaerts wrote:</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'>> A while ago I did some
performance tests on an erlang TCP application we</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'>> have developped here.</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'>> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'>> After adjusting some kernel
and erlang parameters, I managed to accept</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'>> 300.000 TCP connections on one
machine (distributed over 6 erlang nodes</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'>> because each process can only
have max. about 65.000 connections). I ran</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'>> erlang on Sun T1000 hardware
with Solaris 10.</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'>Isn’t there a TCP limit of
64K ports per address? How, then, can you squeeze more than 65,536 connections
out of TCP?</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'>David Mercer</span></p>
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